353 Palace

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After Li Zixiao came to this official post, he has been living in it honestly, without visiting anyone, nor has he sent bribes to any high-ranking officials in the imperial court.

Because Li Zixiao knows very well that he has already relied on Lu Xiangsheng as a backer, it doesn't matter if other court officials recognize him or not, and it doesn't matter whether he is wooed or not.

As long as he used his military exploits, Kong Youde, and the 1.4 million taels of silver to please Chongzhen, it was enough.

Because what he needs, only Chongzhen can give him, as long as the other court ministers, eunuchs, relatives, and Li Zixiao are too lazy to meet.

Because, after all, the capital is not his foundation, he is just a hurried passerby this time, and he will leave after staying for a long time.

The night passed quietly and everything was normal.

In the early morning of the second day, Li Zixiao had just gotten up and finished washing, and someone came to the palace, it was the eunuch who had sent the decree before, summoning Li Zixiao to enter the court.

Li Zixiao took Quartz and a few other guards and followed the eunuch, and the others all stayed in the official post, and they couldn't go.

After walking for most of the day, Li Zixiao finally came to the Forbidden City, looking at the towering city and many Praetorian Guard officers and soldiers who kept patrolling back and forth.

Li Zixiao, who came to the palace for the first time, was excited and nervous in his heart.

It was the eunuch who walked in front of him, because he received the silver from Li Zixiao, and he had a good impression of Li Zixiao, otherwise he would not have fought and came to lead Li Zixiao this morning.

This eunuch Liu turned around and said to Li Zixiao: "Master Li doesn't need to be nervous, now the emperor and your lords are in the early dynasty.

Later, you just need to remember that the miscellaneous family will lead you in, and you will be able to stand there honestly.

But don't talk nonsense, or those officials will impeach you. ”

Li Zixiao even claimed that it was, and at the same time, Li Zixiao couldn't help but feel a little emotional in his heart.

He will soon meet the most tragic emperor of the late Ming Dynasty.

In the ancient history of China, Chongzhen was not the emperor Li Zixiao admired the most, but he was the emperor that Li Zixiao thought was the most backbone.

Li Zixiao followed Eunuch Liu, passed through the gates of the palace, and came to the outside of the Taihe Palace, and after being inspected by a group of palace guards, inside and out, he came to the outside of a large hall.

Outside the main hall, Li Zixiao saw that starting from outside the palace gate, countless Ming civil and military officials wearing various official uniforms stood quietly outside the hall.

These people lined up to the innermost part of the hall, and at the end of the hall, and in the deepest part of the hall, Li Zixiao vaguely saw a golden and brilliant throne.

After Li Zixiao followed this Liu eunuch into the Taihe Palace, he looked at the guards of the forbidden army who were wearing bright armor and holding weapons shining with cold light, standing proudly on the side.

and the rows of civil and military officials wearing vermilion official robes with solemn expressions, a royal majesty, suddenly rushed to their faces.

Rao is Li Zixiao has also seen big scenes, and even when he just came down from the battlefield of life and death, he couldn't help but become cautious.

But Li Zixiao still tried his best to keep his complexion the same, as calm as usual.

After a while, two guards of the Praetorian Army, dressed all over their bodies, walked out of it.

came to the front and back of everyone, and said to everyone expressionlessly: "The emperor has a decree to order Li Zixiao to enter the palace!" ”

Li Zixiao followed behind the two forbidden army guards, and after being led into the main hall, Li Zixiao knelt down and bowed: "The Chenyongcheng Tun army guerrilla Li Zixiao, knock on the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live." ”

Before entering the court, the eunuch Liu had already taught Li Zixiao the etiquette of entering the temple and facing the saint, and at this time, Li Zixiao also knew to kowtow to Chongzhen obediently.

After all, at this time, he is still the high-ranking Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Ninety-Five, and he is the general of the Ming Dynasty, and there is nothing wrong with worshipping the king.

After kneeling for a while, Li Zixiao faintly heard a voice in front of him: "Li Qing's family is exempt from courtesy." ”

"Long live thanks!"

After Li Zixiao stood up, he stood there motionless and did not speak.

He is not stupid, and he also knows that on this occasion, if you say too much, you will lose, so when Li Zixiao came, he had already made up his mind to pay attention, as long as Chongzhen didn't ask him, he would treat himself as a dumb person.

Li Zixiao, who was standing at the back, was still a little curious, and secretly glanced ahead.

Thirty paces ahead, there was a high platform.

On the high platform, a middle-aged man wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, with a delicate appearance, but a slightly pale face, was sitting on the dragon chair, looking at it intently.

"This is the last Chongzhen Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen." Li Zixiao thought silently in his heart.

When Li Zixiao came, the early dynasty was already going on, and at this time, he heard Lu Xiangsheng talking.

"Your Majesty, the Tartars have withdrawn from the Guanwai, and this is a critical moment for the imperial court to solve the scourge of the Tartars and directly subordinate to the counties.

If the people in the counties and towns can't make proper arrangements and delay the spring ploughing, then there will be big trouble. Moreover, at this time, there were more than 300,000 displaced people gathered outside the capital.

These displaced people must be dismissed as soon as possible, so that they can return to their places of origin, and let the county and county commanders organize the rebuilding of their homes and prepare for spring planting......"

Seeing Lu Xiangsheng, who had a look of grief and indignation on his face, he was proposing to Chongzhen how to clean up the tragedy left by the Tartars and resume production.

At this time, after the Tartar retreated, in front of Chongzhen, the two main ones were difficult to escape.

One is that at this time, more than 300,000 Ming troops from all walks of life camped around the capital, they have to consume a lot of food every day, and the capital can't afford it.

Therefore, it is necessary to send away these Ming troops who came to King Qin from all over the country as soon as possible.

However, people have come all the way to King Qin, and you don't even pay a little money, will people leave, definitely not!

And the second problem is naturally the problem of the displaced people who are flocking to the capital more and more.

The gathering of those displaced people outside the capital not only poses a threat to the safety of the capital, but even if these displaced people cannot return to their hometowns, they will also delay the upcoming spring ploughing.

In order to solve this problem, we still need money and grain, not only for disaster relief, but also for organizing spring ploughing and buying grain seeds, cattle, and farm tools for these displaced people.

But in the face of Lu Xiangsheng's various proposals, the head of the household department has only one sentence: "The household department has no money." ”

Li Zixiao didn't know who this Hubu Shangshu was, and it was impossible for him to remember it in history, but in the face of such frank words of this Hubu Shangshu, Li Zixiao was also speechless for a while.

There is no money, no matter how good Lu Xiangsheng's proposal is, it is all empty words, and it cannot be implemented at all.

"Holy Lord, those people outside are your people, don't you want to ignore them?"

Finally, Lu Xiangsheng lamented.

Because, Lu Xiangsheng knew that yesterday he had just pulled 1.4 million taels of silver into the palace, and Chongzhen had money in his hands at this time.

When he received the money, Chongzhen didn't sleep all night with excitement, and he didn't say anything about Li Zixiao's impression, and he rushed up.

Chongzhen had long forgotten that Li Zixiao was a bandit before, and he muttered that he must be rewarded again.

Even, Chongzhen was already thinking about how to use this silver, and he was ready to use this silver.

Part of it was left to Guanning Tieqi, and part was left to Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, so that they could increase their efforts to suppress bandits.

Striving to completely exterminate the 'bandits' who broke into Shangluo Mountain is also a problem for Chongzhen at this time, and then it is the problem of saving the displaced people and retiring production.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng questioned Chongzhen like this, but Chongzhen was not angry, who made him feel good today.

And he got 1.4 million taels of silver, and he also had the credit of Lu Xiangsheng, so of course Chongzhen would not punish him.

But at this time, an official next to him jumped out and shouted loudly: "Lu Xiangsheng, you are so bold, you dare to ask the emperor, where have you read the words of your saint?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng turned his head and sneered: "It turned out to be Chen Shilang, don't think that if this official is not in the capital, he doesn't know the good things you have done."

It was you who bewitched the emperor and negotiated peace with the Tartars, but I didn't expect you to leave hundreds of thousands of imperial court soldiers and horses in Beijing for money and food because you were afraid of death.

People like you are simply misleading the country, and in the end, your peace talks with the Tartars have been effective, and they have not been tricked by the Tartars.

This time, the Tartars swept across more than 50 counties in one prefecture and three prefectures, and in the eyes of this official, those of you who bewitched the Holy Lord's peace talks at the beginning are the accomplices of the Tartars. ”

When he said this, Lu Xiangsheng's eyes couldn't help but glance towards Yang Sichang on the side.

Lu Xiangsheng attacked Chen Xinjia, but in fact, it was Yang Sichang who insinuated, because the mastermind of this peace negotiation was Yang Sichang, just one Chen Xinjia, and he didn't have so much energy.

Chen Xinjia was recommended by Yang Sichang to become the right servant of the military department and the right servant of the imperial history, and he naturally belonged to Yang Sichang's faction.

This time he negotiated peace with the Tartars, and Yang Sichang was behind the scenes, and it was Chen Xinjia and other court officials who really ran before and after.

"Lu Xiangsheng, you ...... You're squirting blood! ”

Chen Xinjia was hit by Lu Xiangsheng's heart, like a cat that had been stepped on by its tail, jumped up, and pointed at Lu Xiangsheng with a red face and shouted.

"I'm squirting blood, you dare to say there is no such thing?"

Lu Xiangsheng changed his previous image, and for the first time in the court, he was so aggressive, but this time he escaped death and figured out a lot of things in his heart.

In particular, the sentence he heard from Li Zixiao's mouth, 'Troubled times should be re-enacted', there are some things he can't blindly compromise.

Chen Xinjia was weak-hearted and didn't dare to shout at Lu Xiangsheng, but looked at Yang Sichang, but Yang Sichang squinted on the side, the old god was there, pretending not to see Chen Xinjia's call for help.

As soon as Chen Xinjia gritted his teeth, he knew that this time this pot could only be carried by himself, who made him the younger brother in front of Yang Sichang, he didn't mention Yang Sichang's back in this pot, did he still expect Yang Sichang to carry it himself!

"Holy Lord, Chen Xinjia offered slanderous words to bewitch the Holy Lord, and the minister asked the Holy Lord to depose him as an example."

Lu Xiangsheng was really ruthless enough at night, and directly asked Chongzhen to dismiss Chen Xinjia's official, which could scare Chen Xinjia now, so he knelt down directly, crying and shouting to Chongzhen: "What about the Holy Mingjian, Weichen is loyal to the Holy Shang!" ”

At this time, Yang Sichang on the side couldn't stand it anymore, he couldn't really let Chongzhen depose Chen Xinjia, that would be equivalent to weakening his power.

"Your Majesty, Chen Shilang may have been ill-conceived before, but his loyalty to the emperor is absolutely unquestionable, please look at his past loyalty and dedication, and be light."

"Okay, I really know the hard work of the Chen Qing family, but what the Lu Qing family said this time is not wrong.

In this case, I will send Chen Qing's family out of the city, and persuade those loyal and brave soldiers of my Ming Dynasty to let them go home early.

If Chen Aiqing can complete this important task, it will be worth the credit, how about it, Chen Aiqing! ”

Li Zixiao, who was in the back, also rolled his eyes when he heard Chongzhen's words, and couldn't help sighing, Chongzhen has a good calculation!

With the help of Lu Xiangsheng's reasoning, he directly threw the most difficult problem to Chen Xinjia.

It is not so easy to let those Ming soldiers and horses outside the city withdraw, without food, it is estimated that it will be difficult for those Ming soldiers and horses to withdraw.

Chongzhen had already issued an order to let these Ming soldiers and horses from all walks of life withdraw, but the general soldiers from Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and other walks of life jointly wrote a letter asking for money and food, otherwise his soldiers would not withdraw.

This can make Chongzhen angry, but he is helpless, Chongzhen also knows that at this time, the imperial court should indeed allocate a sum of money with these Qinwang Mingjun.

But at this time, the household department of the imperial court really couldn't come up with much silver, but if these soldiers were forced to make a mutiny, it would be troublesome.

At this time, Chongzhen took the opportunity to throw this problem to Chen Xinjia to solve it, and it is estimated that Chongzhen did not plan to come up with a penny of silver.

After Chen Xinjia listened to Chongzhen's words, he also changed color for a while, knelt on the ground and kowtowed and shouted: "Your Majesty, the ministers can't do this matter, the household has no money, how can you let the ministers disband those people!" ”

"If it really can't be done, then what's the use of me asking you to be a soldier in the army?"

When Chen Xinjia heard Chongzhen's words, his body was also trembling, he knew that if he didn't take over this matter this time, he would probably be pushed to the end.

He has worked hard for so many years and climbed to the position of the squire of the Ministry of War, as long as he stays up for a few more years, it is very possible to sit in the position of the secretary of the Ministry of War.

The great future ahead was waiting for him, and he was unwilling to leave the court, so he gritted his teeth and responded.

"The minister obeys the order, and he must handle this matter well and live up to the trust of the saint."

After Chen Xinjia finished saying this, his eyes looked at Lu Xiangsheng, and he almost hated Lu Xiangsheng in his heart.

Seeing Chen Xinjia's resentful eyes, Lu Xiangsheng was unmoved, as long as he could share his worries for the saint, Zhongxing Daming, what could I Lu do.

"As for what Lu Aiqing said about dealing with the problem of displaced people, it will be handed over to Yang Aiqing to deal with, the household department will allocate 100,000 taels, and I will take another 200,000 taels from the internal funds, Aiqing must handle this matter well.

This is related to the tax of the imperial court this year, and there must be no such thing."

"As for what Lu Aiqing said about dealing with the problem of displaced people, it will be handed over to Yang Aiqing to deal with, the household department will allocate 100,000 taels, and I will take another 200,000 taels from the internal funds, Aiqing must handle this matter well.

This is related to the tax of the imperial court this year, and there must be no such thing."